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Oakland Athletics starting pitcher Mike Fiers looks down after giving up a two-run home run to Houston Astros’ Robinson Chirinos during the first inning of a baseball game Monday, Sept. 9, 2019, in Houston. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)

Mike Fiers #50 of the Oakland Athletics pitches in the first inning against the Houston Astros at Minute Maid Park on September 09, 2019 in Houston, Texas. (Photo by Bob Levey/Getty Images)

Oakland Athletics starting pitcher Mike Fiers (50) reaches for a new ball after giving up a home run to Houston Astros’ Yordan Alvarez (44) during the first inning of a baseball game Monday, Sept. 9, 2019, in Houston. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)

Mike Fiers #50 of the Oakland Athletics walks off the mound at the end of the first inning against the Houston Astros at Minute Maid Park on September 09, 2019 in Houston, Texas. (Photo by Bob Levey/Getty Images)

Mike Fiers #50 of the Oakland Athletics pitches in the first inning against the Houston Astros at Minute Maid Park on September 09, 2019 in Houston, Texas. (Photo by Bob Levey/Getty Images)

HOUSTON — A raging forest fire isn’t easy to extinguish. And the A’s happened to catch the Houston Astros on a tear through dry brush.

Houston was fresh off a 21-1 win over the Seattle Mariners on Sunday with the type of heat that singed into Monday’s matchup against Oakland, and all the A’s could throw at their fire was some spit.

The last time Mike Fiers faced the Astros he allowed four home runs. It was a moonshot frenzy that the A’s outlasted by one run back on a rare hot, dry night in Oakland. Fiers was hard on himself despite the win and the conditions. Monday, the Astros did one better, taking Fiers deep five times in just one-plus innings en route to a 15-0 win.

“There’s no excuse, I just have to laugh about it,” Fiers said. “It’s one of those games where you just feel like they were on everything you threw. But I’m going to put this behind me pretty quick.”

Fiers said he felt good. same old, same old. It was his first loss since April 20 (snapping his win streak at 12 games), so introspection didn’t seem necessary. The A’s are just in a place where they can shake off routs against dominant rivals and aim again for another edge. Fiers made mistakes, like he usually does. And this team does not waste one mistake.

Alex Bregman went first with a two-strike, three-run home run, his 35th of the year. Rookie Yordan Alvarez went back-to-back. Robinson Chirinos hit a two-run home run…and that was all just in the first inning.

Jose Altuve took him yard in the second inning for a two-run shot, prompting manager Bob Melvin to put his long man Paul Blackburn in to quell further embarrassment — though, Alvarez tagged him with the longest home run by an Astro in Minute Maid Park history, a 416-foot bomb into right field’s third deck.

“They’re a home run hitting club, it’s amazing how many runs they scored last two nights,” Melvin said.

“Felt normal, felt like me. They got me,” Fiers said. “There’s not much to it. Made me throw a lot of pitches, made me work. By the time I knew it I was out of there. Happened quick, and got this team behind pretty quick and kind of let them down.”

The Astros became the first team in Major League history to hit six home runs in the first two innings. And, from the A’s perspective, an 11-0 deficit against Zack Greinke put them in a new kind of deep ditch. Greinke went six innings and allowed two hits, striking out five. In two innings he threw less than 10 pitches.

The shutout snapped the A’s 104-game streak in which they have not been shut out. It was the longest active streak in the majors.